How to guess the gender of German nouns (+ printable exercise)

If you ask anyone who is learning German, what their hate the most about this language, I can bet that many will answer “the gender of the nouns”. Why is “the book” neutral, “the table” masculine and “the lamp” feminine? How are you supposed to remember all this? I know that German grammatical gender is not an easy grammar topic. The bad news is, you still need to learn the genders of the nouns by heart if you want to speak German properly. The good news is, there are some cases when you can determine the gender of the noun by looking at its ending or meaning without having to memorize it all.

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Primrose18th February 2018 - 8:34 pm

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